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Since I began working on my PhD thesis (tentatively titled ‘Neo-Historical Monsters: The Use and Abuse of the Literary Past in Remix Culture’) in 2014, I’ve accumulated quite a collection of texts related to monsters, remix, and popular culture. Below you’ll find a regularly-updated (but still woefully incomplete) list of some of the things I’ve been reading.

Television

Fine Art

Travis Louie

Dan Hillier

Games

American McGee’s Alice (Rogue Entertainment, Electronic Arts, 2000)

Echo Bazaar (2009)

The Order: 1886 (2015)

Blood borne (2015; Victorian Gothic universe)

Critical Theory

Albertazzi, Daniele, and Duncan McDonnell, ‘Conclusion: Populism and Twenty-First Century Western European Democracy’, in Twenty-First Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy, ed. by Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), pp. 217–23

———, ‘Introduction: The Sceptre and the Spectre’, in Twenty-First Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy, ed. by Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), pp. 1–14

Dendle, Peter J., ‘Monsters and the Twenty-First Century: The Preturnatural in the Age of Scientific Consensus’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, ed. by Asa Simon Mittman and Peter J. Dendle (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 437–48

Domsch, Sebastian, ‘Monsters against Empire: The Politics and Poetics of Neo-Victorian Metafiction in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’, in Neo-Victorian Gothic: Horror, Violence and Degeneration in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth Century (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012), pp. 97–121

Mazzoleni, Gianpietro, ‘Populism and the Media’, in Twenty-First Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy, ed. by Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), pp. 49–64

McLeod, Kembrew, and Peter DiCola, Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011)

Mittman, Asa Simon, and Peter J. Dendle, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013)

Muddle, Cas, and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, ‘Populism and (Liberal) Democracy: A Framework for Analysis’, in Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy?, ed. by Cas Muddle and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 1–26

———, ‘Populism: Corrective and Threat to Democracy’, in Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy?, ed. by Cas Muddle and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 205–22

Scott, Suzanne, ‘Fangirls in Refrigerators: The Politics of (In)visibility in Comic Book Culture’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 13 (2013) <http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/460/384> [accessed 11 November 2015]

Serazio, Michael, ‘The Apolitical Irony of Generation Mash-Up: A Cultural Case Study in Popular Music’, Popular Music and Society, 31 (2007), 79

Web Articles

Anders, Charlie Jane, ‘Literary Mashups Meet Tentacles. Has All Of Western Literature Been Leading Up To This’, io9, 2009 <http://io9.com/5315301/literary-mashups-meet-tentacles-has-all-of-western-literature-been-leading-up-to-this> [accessed 10 September 2014]

Thomas, June, ‘“The Thing That Made Me Monstrous to Some People Is Also the Thing That Empowered Me”’, Slate, 2014 <http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/05/09/penny_dreadful_s_john_logan_why_a_gay_writer_feels_a_kinship_with_frankenstein.html> [accessed 22 November 2015]